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SOPS
As it says in the article you have provided a link to;
The [New Zealand] government
closed the trans-Tasman bubble on 25 July after the outbreak in New South Wales. Anyone returning from New South Wales was required to go to into quarantine. Travellers from Victoria were required to self-isolate for three days and produce two negative tests. But New Zealanders returning from other parts of Australia were given a week-long grace period to return without having to isolate. Those travellers were required to have a pre-departure test before arrival but the emergence of the virus has raised questions over whether that line of defence was breached.
Ardern said there was 100% compliance with the rules made on the closure of the bubble, but despite this health officials would be producing a list of all arrivals from Australia into New Zealand during that period and contacting them again.
So, quarantine-free travel to New Zealand ceased three weeks ago; Adern maintains that there has been 100 percent compliance with pre-departure testing, quarantine and self-isolation measures since then; and yet they are have an outbreak. It is very likely that one of two things has happened; either the measures that the New Zealand government put in place were not entirely effective or there hasn't been 100 percent compliance. Either/or or both, they are factors entirely within the remit of the New Zealand government.